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Winners of Spain's Christmas lottery celebrated Saturday by drinking toasts and singing songs after thousands took a share of the $3.1 billion in prizes.
Argentine poet Juan Gelman, who wrote about the pain of loss under his country's military juntas, has won the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's top literary award.
Many Spaniards were so amused when their king told Venezuela's president to "shut up" they want to hear the words every time their phone rings.
Master guitar-maker Arcangel Fernandez has stopped taking orders. He's been at it for 50 years, fashioning delicate wooden shells into lacquered beauties, and at age 75 he has enough work for the rest of his life.
A Spanish judge ordered 17 leaders of an outlawed Basque political party jailed Sunday on provisional charges of belonging to an armed group.
A senior member of the Basque separatist movement said Spain's government had effectively declared war by arresting most of his outlawed party's leadership while thousands demonstrated Saturday to demand independence for the northern region.
A judge ordered copies of a satirical magazine confiscated Friday for publishing a front-cover cartoon of Spain's Crown Prince Felipe in an intimate bedroom scene with his wife, Princess Letizia, court officials said.
A judge indicted three U.S. soldiers Friday in the 2003 death of a Spanish journalist who was killed when their tank opened fire at a hotel in Baghdad.
An Egyptian accused of being a mastermind of the Madrid train bombings told a court Thursday he had no involvement in the deadly attack, despite wiretapped conversations in which he allegedly boasted he was the brains behind it.
Victor Manuel Lozano spends his days like most 2-year-olds. He goes to nursery school, draws, rides a tricycle. The difference is, he does it in prison, living with mom, a convicted murderer, and dad, a drug trafficker.
A Spanish fashion designer used illegal African immigrants as models at a Barcelona fashion show to draw attention to the plight of thousands of poor migrants who embark on dangerous sea expeditions for a chance at better lives in Europe.
Fidel Castro has had at least three failed operations and complications from an intestinal infection, and the Cuban leader faces "a very grave prognosis," a Spanish newspaper reported Tuesday. A Cuban diplomat in Madrid said the reports were lies and declined to comment.
A leading pro-independence militant urged the armed Basque separatist group ETA on Monday to maintain a cease-fire which the government declared void following a Dec. 30 car bombing in Madrid that killed two people.
Workers on Saturday recovered the body of an Ecuadorean teenager killed a week earlier in a massive blast at Madrid's international airport that was blamed on violent Basque separatist group ETA, police said.
A powerful car bomb exploded at Madrid's international airport Saturday and Spain's government, blaming the Basque group ETA, suspended plans for peace talks with the separatists.
A German citizen testified Monday in a Spanish court that he was kidnapped and tortured by U.S. intelligence agents in 2003, then flown by the CIA to Afghanistan where he was imprisoned and abused for five months.
Police caught nearly 1,200 people trying to reach the Canary Islands in overcrowded boats that left from the west African nation of Mauritania, setting a record for a weekend, officials said Sunday.
Tests show that some of the testosterone in Floyd Landis' system at the Tour de France was synthetic and not naturally produced by his body as he claimed, according to a newspaper report.
His voice steady and his tone defiant, Floyd Landis vowed he would clear his name of allegations he cheated to win the Tour de France.
British and German sun-lovers flock here by the millions to loll on the white-sand beaches, eat fresh seafood in breezy outdoor restaurants and down one too many glasses of sangria at night. But another type of newcomer has inundated the Canary Islands in recent months — desperate and hungry African migrants arriving on the spectacular coastline in packed fishing boats.
Arthur Roth's 15-year-old daughter was killed in a Jerusalem suicide blast. Kenneth Thompson's mother died in the Oklahoma City bombing. Spanish journalist Irene Villa lost both legs in a bomb attack 15 years ago.
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